China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited, a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, today announced that its first 6.5MW prototype super compact drive ("SCD") wind turbine generator ("WTG") has been successfully completed in June 2013, and installation and testing are expected to commence in the third quarter of 2013. The 6.5MW SCD prototype utilizes Ming Yang's advanced two-bladed SCD technology. It is ...

The US government yesterday charged Chinese wind-turbine company, Sinovel Wind Group Co and three people of stealing trade secrets from US supplier AMSC. In a grand jury indictment, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Sinovel, its deputy director of R&D Su Liying, technology manager Zhao Haichun, and a former employee of AMSC's Austrian subsidiary, Dejan Karabasevic, of stealing proprietary softw ...

Malakoff will acquire the entire share capital of Meridian Wind Macarthur Holdings, which operates Macarthur Wind Farm under a joint-venture agreement with Australian-listed AGL Energy Ltd. Malakoff Corporation Bhd is acquiring a 50 per cent stake in an Australian wind farm for A$130mil (RM382mil) from New Zealand state-owned Meridian Energy Limited. Under the share purchase agreement, Malakoff will acquire ...

Vestas is to supply 51 turbines for the 106.8MW Taralga wind farm in New South Wales, Australia. The Danish manufacturer will manufacture and ship a mix of 1.8MW V100, 2MW V90 and 3MW V90 machines through the second half of this year and the first quarter of 2014. Construction of Taralga is slated to take 17 months and the facility is slated for full operations by November 2014. The deal with Taralga Wind F ...

The new issue of Power Insider Asia is out now! And it has a brand new look! This issue focusses on China and Thailand and has a fantastically fresh new image. Highlights include overviews of China’s coal market and mini-hydro projects in Thailand, a roundtable with Shanghai Electric, Harbin and Jiangsu, tons of content on fuel cell development, as well as contributions from Trina Solar, KEPCO, ITRON, PUB, ...

Electricity Generating Public Company Limited, or EGCO Group, Thailand’s first Independent Power Producer has an established track record of successfully expanding its power generation portfolio in markets outside of Thailand. The Company announced its successful investment in the 113MW “” in the State of New South Wales, Australia, via the acquisition of a 100 percent equity interest in Asia Pacific Renewa ...

Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Sinovelsaid it plans to raise more than $500m through an initial public offering (IPO) and list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, according to reports. The company, which recently completed its Shanghai Donghai Bridge 102MW offshore wind power demonstration project, hopes to raise $513m when it goes public. Sinovel manufactured and erected more than 1400MW of 1.5MW wind turbi ...

India's Tata Power has announced the financial closure for its 134MW Amakhala Emoyeni wind farm project through its South African joint venture company with Exxaro – Cennergi. The company was selected as the preferred bidder for the Amakhala wind farm project and the 95MW Tsitsikamma wind farm project by the South African government's department of energy in 2012. Cennergi has successfully tied up the entir ...

A floating wind turbine for electricity generation off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture has been completed at a Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. shipyard in Chiba Prefecture. The 2 MW wind turbine, which was unveiled to the media on Tuesday, has a rotor with a diameter of 80 meters and sits on a structure supported by a set of three 32-meter-high cylindrical iron floats. The turbine is the first e ...

A Chinese Company is coming up with a 50 MW wind energy project in Gharo. This was stated by Vice-President of the HydroChina International Engineering Company Limited, Wang Youngqiang, on Monday. He said that the cost of the project has been estimated at dollars 120 million. Wang who is on a visit to Pakistan, said that the project had been initiated by HydroChina Dawood Power Limited (HDPPL), a jointly in ...